Adhesive repair device.



W. N. SHELTON. ADHESIVE REPAIR DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED MAR.18. 190s.

Patented Nov. 23, 1909.

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WILBUB N. SHELTON, OF BOSTON, IASSAGHUSETTS.

ADHESIVEREPAIB DEVICE.

Specification of Letter: Patent. Application filed larch 1a, 1908. Serial No. 421,aas.

Patented Nov. 23, 1909.

To all whom it 'ma/l concern:

Be it known that I, WILBUR N. SHEn'roN, a citizen of the United States, and a resldent of Boston, in the count of Sufiolk and State-of Massachusetts, ave invented an Improvement in Adheslve Repair Devices, of which the following description, n connection with the accompanying drawmgs, 1s a specification, like figures on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention pertains to an adheslve device used for patching or repalrmg fabrics or the like. l

One object of the invention is to provide an adhesive patch which shall be convenient in use and shall adhere strongly and permathose skilled in the nently in its desired position.

The character of the inyention may be best understood by reference to the accompanying drawings which illustrate various forms in which the invention may be embodied.

In the drawings: Figure 1 shows a iece of fabric or the like, havin a substantially circular hole therein patched by an adhesive device embodying. this invention; Fig. 2 shows apiece of a crescent shaped hole appropriately patched; Fig. 3 is a. transverse section on a line 44 of Fig. 1, illustrating the filling means 00- cupying the space in a hole (the scale of Fig. 3 1s considerabl exaggerated, for the sake of clearness); ig. 4 illustrates a use of a formed adhesive patch or repairing device;

and Fig. 5 a detail section on the ne 66 of 4.

Re erring now to the drawings, my novel patch com rises a fabric member 5, of a material 'pre erably similar to that which is to be repaired and upon this fabric member is placed a coating or layer of an adhesive agent such as a gutta-percha cement, or any other cement that requires heat or other special treatment to render it temporarily conditioned for uniting fabricsthe union becoming set and permanent as the cement cools or resumes its final condition. Such a cement may be formed from gutta-percha, cut by bicarbonate of soda or other approriate element, the same being applied to the ace of the patch material by spreading or calendering. Such a patch'may be readily applied to a round hole 6, a crescent shaped hole or a hole of any other shape, or in va- -rious other connectlons which will appear to. art, by simply applying bric or the like havmg a.

. material 12 the adhesive patch to the article to be repaired and preferabl heating and pressing the two firmly to t er, until the adhesive incorporates itsel securely with the surface of the material to be patched or otherwise repaired. The patch member may be fashloned to a convex 0r concave form, and supplied as in other cases with a suitable adhesive. For example, Fig. 4 illustrates a manner of repairin a hole in the heel of a sock or stocking. he hole 9, located at the convex art of the heel, would be diflicult to repair y means of a flat patch. Accordingly, a patch 10 of fashioned fabric or the llke, shaped to appropriate conformation, may be placed upon or shaped over a suitable form such as the heel of a last, or the like, with its adhesive surface outward; and then the sock to be repaired may be drawn over the patch-bearing form or any other shaping e ement and the two ironed firmly together, preferably with heat.

With any such patch as has been described, whether flat or ashioned-to convex or concave form, there is employed filling means 12, as shown in Fig. 3, and the patch 5 may be applied either before or after the filling has been assembled in the hole to be repaired in the material 14. To suit this purpose, the entire'lower surface of the patch 5 in Fig. 3 may be covered with adhesive, serving to hold the filling material 12 in place. This material 12 may well be exactly like the material 14, so that if snugly fitted in the hole and skillfully patched and ironed the hole will be practically indistinguishable.

If desired, the patch member 5 reduced in thickness near its ed es, as shown in Fig. 3, and this may be e ected in any practicable manner as by heavily compressmg or scarfing the patch material near its periphery, causing it to taper from within outwardly. By this means such thickness as is added by the presence of the patch may be gra uated so as to relieve the patched or repaired areas of bunches.

As illustrated in Fig. 5, the fashioned filling material 16, similar to the filling means 12 of Fig. 3, may be employed to fill out a hole in material having a concave or convex. conformation. In such case the patch 10 may desirably taper down to a thin edge as shown.

This invention'has many desirable and may be terial on a face of the valuable advantages, the repairing device or atch, such as contem lated, being applied very quickly with faci ity.

The embodiments of the invention hereinbefore described are intended merely for purposes of illustration and the invention is not to be construed as essentially limited thereto. F

Claims-'- 1. As an article of manufacture, a patch cmnpl'isilig in combination a fabric member fashioned to convex form and having an adhesive thereon to engage and become incorporated with materlal encircling a hole to be patched; and a filler adhering to the fashioned fabric member and also fashioned to the form thereof, said filler being adapted to fill out the hole in the material to be repaired.

2. An article of manufacture com risin in combination a fabric member fa hione to convex form and having its periphery of reduced thickness; a la er of adhesive maashioned member to member, smaller than said patch and unite unite the latter with material having a hole to be patched; andafiller of the same material as that to be patched, united to the fashioned member and itself fashioned to the form thereof, said filler bein suitably pro ortioned and shaped to fill t e hole in sai material to be repaired.

3. An article of manufacture consisting of a atch member having a fabric body with a ayer of adhesive thereon, and a fi lin to the latter by the adhesive, the patch member covering the entire face of the fil member, leaving a mar in of adhesive pate member for securing t e article in osition with the filling member filling a ho e to be 40 patched.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribin witnesses.

ILBUR N. SHELTON.

Witnesses:

ROBERT H. KAMMLER, FREDERICK 'L. EMERY. 

